Numbers 8:5-22: 5 The Lord spoke to Moses: 6 “Take the Levites from among the Israelites and ceremonially cleanse them. 7 This is what you must do to them for their purification: Sprinkle them with the purification water. Have them shave their entire bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
Consecration and purification are our foundation stones in the deeper spiritual life. We cannot do anything for the Kingdom if we are spiritually filthy, unclean, living in lusts. The Levities were consecrated, taken from the first born of Israel, descended from Jacob’s third son. They abhorred idolatry and this opened the way for their high service, they were young, entered their service at twenty-five years of age, ministers at thirty; they were retired at fifty. They had access to the Holy of Holies, due to the purity of lives and rituals they performed and lived around the tabernacle. Today, we have a higher service in the Kingdom because of the fullness of the Kingdom, in the power of the Holy Spirit. But most Christians are peddling with murky sins. Name them, they are all there. However, people want the power, but they don’t want the price. Thus, the power being manifest in churches is of an unholy fire, it is not consecrated. Churches allow literally anything in today, claiming the others are of the old school of thought. The Bible cannot change, nor compromised, nor be mixed with dirty waters. Pollution steals souls and also spiritual power, so we can give nothing to a lost dying world.
We belong to the Most High God through grace when we accept Christ as our Savior. Then after our salvation, as the cleansing and holiness was essential for the Levite, we too need purity and cleansing.
As the Levites were “separate,” we too as Christians have to separate ourselves from the world system; we are ‘in’ the world, but not ‘of’ the world. We are ambassadors of Christ on Earth, so our life has to reflect differently to a darkened world. Would an ambassador of another nation behave just like us? No, they are always distinguished and looked upon with esteem, and honored. So, too as we separate ourselves in consecrated holiness, God will lift us up and give us honor, not to glorify ourselves, but to glorify Him and draw more to the Kingdom.
Rita
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